We’re seeing growing reports of users of older PS Vita firmwares being unable to access their email accounts (gmail, yahoo) through the PS Vita. The issue has been confirmed by some Vita hackers such as Major_Tom.

People running on firmwares such as 3.01 and 3.18 are reporting the issue. Firmwares 3.51 and 3.52 seem to be unaffected at the moment.

Vita error code C2-14393-0

The symptom is that trying to add a new mail account (gmail or yahoo) on a PS Vita running a low firmware (such as 3.01 or 3.18) will yield the following error: C2-14393-0. It is unclear if the app is being blocked at the Sony level, or the mail providers.

Our technique to fix gmail on your ps vita is to fix another specific error, error C2-14396-3, and does not work in this specific situation. This doesn’t seem to be related to a POP/IMAP misconfiguration either.

What to do if you run into error code C2-14393-0 on your PS Vita?

Users have reported success on these old PS Vita firmware with other email providers such as gmx.com, so the current recommendation is to try and create an email account with those providers. Therefore the issue people are facing with gmail or yahoo makes even less sense if it were an attempt from Sony to block hacking. So this could very well be some protocol update from the email providers themselves, that maybe the Vita email app on lower firmwares is not compatible with.

I can confirm that this happens on the most up-to-date version as well, at least with Gmail. Yahoo works, but Gmail errors out, and I then get an email saying that I tried to access from a location that had out-of-date security and they blocked it.

Failmail is arguably the most valuable exploit for the Vita, let’s hope it’s still usable even with other providers otherwise it’s basically unhackable for a bunch of useful things on any firmware 3.51 or below.

I was glad I did create all the bubbles I needed before, but I tried transfering new demos/games from my PS4 to my Vita (using the QCMA trick before obviously) and I can’t transfer anything any more. Always getting an error u__u

Surprise surprise, another “Vita is dead” comment. Add that to the “clickbait children” (bawww why clickbait wololo? waaaah) and all we need now is a person banging on about how this place has gone downhill and we’ll have a perfect set. 😀

Not to mention, it has been almost 4 years since the Vita came out, yet we still don’t have a reliable native hack that’s easy for anyone to apply. 3DS has several that work fine, and us Vita users have Rejuvenate…and that’s it. Hackers just don’t want to touch the Vita, despite it being capable of better emulation and such all around. The Vita is capable of having perfect SNES and GBA emulators. It could probably have a reliable N64 emulator too, and even a respectable DS emulator. Really not sure why hackers aren’t jumping on this more, given the possibilities.

I feel sorry for wololo…theres just no winning…people moan “i don’t care, i want more vita stuff” when he posts other news…but when he posts vita stuff other people then go “i don’t care about vita”. Why do some people think every piece of news is all just for them. What doesn’t interest some people interest other people. They just need to shut up and move along until an article they are interested in comes up

Thing with exploits is usually people use one exploit to find another one. Exploit patched on higher firmwares, and due to protocol update exploit unintentionally patched on lower firmwares. This is not good news. No exploit = POSSIBLE no new exploits. Be careful what you wish for.

This is part of the reason no one wanted to release Bad IRET or other exploits for PS4. Those exploits are still being used (well maybe not now as I’m sure they have better exploits which are still private) to search for new exploits. That’s how the PSP worked for a long time. People used one of the very first exploits ever discovered and just kept constantly updating it when a new update rolled out.

I have 3.35 on mine, my whitelist hack doesn’t work anymore. I was able to create a gmx account which works; however, everytime I try to do the whitelist hack (which I have done in the past with no problems) it blocks all my apps on my PS TV and gives me an error message. I had to restore my PSTV to factory settings. Any suggestions??

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